I'm 34 (F) and have been friends with a 43 (F) for a few years but we've been very close over the last year. Her family have had quite an upsetting year and as a result I've taken a lot of time off my work to spend with her teenage children. She's self employed and needed to work but felt guilty, so I took annual leave to hang with them and take them to the cinema or out for food in the school holidays.
We all went on holiday together and for their birthdays I got them both gifts they loved. Over the past few months I've seen little bits and pieces that I knew they'd like so bought them with Christmas in mind. I don't have family and always spend Christmas alone which my friend knows. Last year she wrapped up individual gifts with dates on them for me to open each day of the holidays.
She lives a distance from me and I don't drive but she works close to my home and a few weeks ago I asked if she could stop by to collect their Christmas presents. She ignored the request. I mentioned it again a few days later and she said 'you don't need to get us anything'. I explained I already had and it was all wrapped up. She's been a little distant over the past couple of weeks and I didn't want to ask again so I parcelled up the gifts and sent them (at quite the expense) via courier. The parcel was delivered a few days ago and there was a picture sent of her daughter opening the door. There are four wrapped gifts for her and each of her two children plus a card saying it's just a small token and I hope they have a lovely Christmas.
She hasn't been in touch since it arrived and I'm wondering if I was in the wrong sending them. I thought the issue was going out of her way to collect them but I'm now paranoid it was something to do with her not wanting the gifts and that I've done something wrong.